Will Book __, Page 151<\/p>\n
Knowing all men by these presents that I, John Dodson, senr.<\/b> of the State of Tennessee and Hawkins County, do hereby make my last Will and Testament in the words and figures following; to wit:<\/p>\n
I do will and bequeath to my beloved grandson George Dodson<\/b>, a certain tract of land containing 50 acres more or less bounded as follows: Being in the county of Hawkins and state aforesaid, on the south side of Holston River, on the head waters of Dodson<\/span>‘s Creek. Beginning on a white oak near the [illegible] of the path a<\/span>going from my house to Thomas Berry<\/b>‘s. Thence, a north east course to a cedar tree. Thence south east to Anna Coward<\/b>‘s line near where John Walker <\/b>cut a locust tree at or near the mouth of [illegible] branch. Thence with Mitchell<\/b>‘s line round to the beginning.<\/p>\n I also will and bequeath to the said George Dodson<\/b> one dollar in money out of my estate.<\/p>\n I also will and bequeath to my daughter Mary <\/b>[Masy<\/b> ?] Manis<\/b> one dollar out of my Estate.<\/p>\n I also will and bequeath to my son John <\/b>the remainder of my land including my old possessions containing 224 acres be it the same more or less.<\/p>\n I also will to my son John<\/b> all the balance of my property that I possess consisting of a variety of articles too tedious to mention.<\/p>\n I hereby set my hand and seal This second day of January in [illegible] of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and thirty eight, in presence of:<\/p>\n John<\/b> [X<\/span>] Dodson <\/b>(seal) (his mark)<\/p>\n Attest:<\/p>\n Nicholas Beckner<\/b> This Hawkins County Will was transcribed by one of the following volunteers:\u00a0 Audrae Mathis; Gary Fletcher; Betty Mize; Diana Arney; Karen Negron, Kathey Welder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Will Book __, Page 151 Knowing all men by these presents that I, John Dodson, senr. of the State of Tennessee and Hawkins County, do hereby make my last Will and Testament in the words and figures following; to wit: …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWm. Smith<\/b>__
\n John Walker<\/b>
\nJohn Berry<\/b><\/p>\n
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